Alex Dragulescu

Romanian multimedia artist Alex Dragulescu works largely in the realm of data visualization. Many of his pieces involve the artistic transformation of spam, like my favorite: Spam Architecture (picture above).

"The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures."

High quality prints from Spam Architecture series are available for sale here. Another similar project of his, Extrusions in C Major, takes musical scores as the data to be visualized. Here's the output from Trio C-Major for Piano, Violin, and Cello by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:



But maybe Dragulescu's most compellinng project to date is Blogbot:

"Blogbot is a software agent in development that generates experimental graphic novels based on text harvested from web blogs.

Blogbot crawls the web and takes snapshots of web blogs related to a user-specified theme. Then, based on the harvested text, a dynamic collage of images and strings is generated using a keyword-matching algorithm. Later versions will use computational linguistics approaches to derive meaning from text."

You can "play" the first novel generated by Blogbot here